November Ranking Promotion for Rankography Members

EXCITING NEWS!

We are giving away four (4) Amazon gift cards to certain members in a Rankings promotion during November. We know that increasing the total number of rankings per category increases the discovery value of the site for all users. We also know that our members' time is valuable so we are creating an incentive for you to rank more categories.

Specifically, we have created two member challenges. The first challenge is called The Total Challenge and we are giving two (2) Amazon gift cards to the two members with the most total categories ranked (with at least 5 entries per category) at the end of November. The first place winner of The Total Challenge will receive a $40 Amazon gift card and second place will get a $25 Amazon gift card.

The second challenge is called The Incremental Challenge and we are giving away two (2) Amazon gift cards to the two members that rank the most additional categories (with at least 5 entries per category) during the month of November (from and including 10-31-10 to 11-30-10). The first place winner of The Incremental Challenge will receive a $40 Amazon gift card and second place will get a $25 Amazon gift card.

Now there are a couple of rules you need to be aware of in these Challenges.
1. Only category rankings with at least 5 movies will be counted as a ranked category. We prefer that members fully rank a category with all of the movies they like that applies to a category, but you must have at least 5 valid movies in a ranking to be counted.
2. Your rankings will not count if it is clear that you are just randomly inputting movies or using the same movies on all your rankings just to increase the number of ranked categories. We understand rankings are subjective and we will allow latitude if it is clear you are making an effort to create actual rankings for each category, but we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to disqualify any member that we believe is trying to thwart the spirit of the contest to create bulk rankings with bogus rankings.
3. Rankings that are clearly copies of another member just to increase rankings will also be disqualified. That is not to say that you can't have the same rankings as another member because we know that will happen. But if all of your rankings appear to be simply copied from one or more members in order to quickly increase your total rankings, you run the risk of disqualification, again at our sole discretion. Bottom line, just make an honest and valid effort and you shouldn't run into trouble.
4. You do not need to be an existing member to participate, but you do need to sign up and start ranking categories if you are not yet a member because several members have a head start on you.
5. You still need to adhere to the normal Terms of Service of the site. So, please take a read through those Terms to avoid running the risk of disqualification or losing your account.
6. Several members that are affiliated with the site are not participating in the promotion and they include Tonto, brooklyn77, CallingDrBombay, brewster, Roundersbuzz and Keysersoze.
7. Winners may not request substitutions of prize winnings. All winners are solely responsible for any and all taxes and/or fees as well as all additional costs that may be incurred.
8. In the event of a tie for any of potential prizes, the member with the most total movies included on all of their ranked categories will be deemed the winner. In the event there is still a tie after all the movies are tallied, then the member that has been a member of Rankography the longest will be deemed the winner of said award.
9. See below for some additional contest terms.

Note:  Please do a keyword search of the existing categories (on the Categories page) before adding a new category because often times there is a similar category already.  We want to avoid duplicate categories so that we can calculate true Composite Rankings.

Below we have included a benchmark of rankings as of October 30th for calculating the results of the Incremental Challenge. October 31st will be considered the first day of the Challenge and any rankings today will count toward the Incremental Challenge. This also gives you an idea of current Leaderboard for the Total Challenge. MDotMovieMan has set the ranking bar at 22 categories, but that is a very reachable goal with a concerted effort during the month.

So here are the number of ranked categories for members (with at least 5 ranked entries) as of the end of October 30th. All members not listed below or in Rule 6 above does not currently have any qualified rankings (with at least 5 movies) as of the end of October 30th:

Categories Ranked as of 10-30-2010
MDotMovieMan 22
filmforager 12
john49 8
MosaicMan 7
Pokernutz 7
BigThoughtsFromASmallMind 5
blogcabins 5
Evil Dead Junkie 5
LolitasClassics 5
TheHollywoodRevue 5
DEMayo2 4
DVDSpinDoctor 4
goodoldparanoia 4
hal0000 4
rebzombie 4
Red 4
AaronIMTV 3
filmgeek 3
garv 3
Izzy 3
mugison 3
nicola-t 3
bitchinfilms 2
Clarabela 2
Dancinghotdogs 2
eangevine 2
GloriaOliver 2
J_Jammer 2
Joeeholman 2
MyFilmHabit 2
TheOpinionatedB 2
utsav 2
amiableamy 1
anfieldreds09 1
Chase Kahn 1
daphnelaura 1
IHateFilmDotCom 1
Jack 1
jejozi 1
Joel Gunz 1
June Zach 1
jw1023 1
Katie 1
KidReviewer 1
Lady Horror 1
littlemisszombie 1
loisgrl 1
Mattsuzaka 1
Movie Muse 1
moviesatmidnight 1
mylastoscar 1
Taliesin_ttlg 1
TheMike31 1
TotalBurke 1

Best of luck everyone and get ranking!!

Additional contest/promotion terms and conditions:
10. Rankings after 11/30/2010 will not count toward the promotion.
11. JT Webmedia Inc. and its site, Rankography.com are not responsible to any interruptions of internet service either for the Rankography.com website or any of its members access to the internet. In the event of such an outage of service for Rankography.com, such time will be lost from the promotion and NO additional time will added to the promotion.
12. All winners will be notified via the email address provided during site registration. If the winner does not respond within five (5) business days, another winner will be selected. Failure to respond to the notification email within five (5) business days shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize.
13. You acknowledge and agree that JT Webmedia Inc and Rankography.com have the right to publicize the winners of the promotion awards using the Usernames registered on the Rankography.com website.
14. The contest is null and void in any jurisdiction where prohibited by law.
15. JT Webmedia Inc. and Rankography.com reserve the right in their sole and absolute discretion to terminate any contest at any time without prior notice.
16. JT Webmedia Inc. and Rankography.com reserve the right in their sole and absolute discretion to alter any contest rules at any time.
17. By entering a contest, you conclusively are deemed to have agreed to be bound by these contest rules and terms and conditions as well as by any rules specific to such contest. This is an irrevocable condition of entry.
18. No purchase or payment of any consideration is necessary to enter the contest.
19. JT Webmedia Inc. and Rankography.com reserve the right to require the winner to execute an affidavit of eligibility as a sworn document and provide other proof of eligibility as a condition of receipt of the prize or award.